GOP governor’s ugly blood lust: Why Mary Fallin should account for state-sanctioned torture

[DonViejo]

Oklahoma pol presided over botched execution -- revealing gruesome lack of humanity. Here's what should happen next

JOAN WALSH

Last in the national news for signing a bill that prevented Oklahoma cities from raising the minimum wage, Gov. Mary Fallin now has to answer for the torture-execution of Clayton D. Lockett, whose so-called lethal injection merely induced enough prolonged pain and trauma to trigger a fatal heart attack. I can barely stand to read about it; Fallin should be forced to account for every gruesome detail.

Fallin is not the only guilty party here. The death penalty is legal in 32 states, but they have a problem: As the march of human progress makes it clear that one after another form of execution is barbaric, we search for a new method, and yet they all seem to fail us. We moved from hangings, beheadings and firing squads to the cleaner and scientific solutions of the electric chair and the gas chamber. (Along the way, 140 nations, including all of our European allies, gave up and abolished the death penalty altogether.)

When we found those new solutions wanting – prisoners are too often tortured to death by electricity or gas, too – we turned to “lethal injection”: quiet, out of view, the long sleep. Then problems arose with lethal injection too: It didn’t always work reliably or painlessly, either, plus drug manufacturers became squeamish about letting it be known that their products were being served in a final cocktail.

How did drug manufacturers, known for their avarice, develop more of a conscience than politicians like Mary Fallin? It’s fair to say they have different bottom lines, and Fallin’s is served by executing her state’s criminals.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/04/30/gop_governors_ugly_bloodlust_why_mary_fallin_should_account_for_state_sanctioned_torture/

[hlthe2b]

1. It takes a sociopath to be a RETHUG Governor, nowadays--at least if they are going to

"carry the banner" of what RETHUGs seem to stand for.

This horrendous woman is hardly any better than the convicted she sought so hard to kill.